Historical Events

Name: Ghana Historical Events
Creator: Wikidata
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Events in Ghana's history that have a record of their own: wars and battles, coups, treaties, elections, disasters and the moments of independence, with the years they ran and who took part. 375 records.

v1.0last updated Sep 18, 2026 · snapshotlisting updated Sep 18, 2026GH₵19.00375 recordsCulture

Fields

Every column this dataset returns, with its type. This is the shape of the API response.

Field	Type
name	TEXT NOT NULL
event_type	TEXT
description	TEXT
start_year	INTEGER
end_year	INTEGER
location_named	TEXT
participants	TEXT
wikidata_id	TEXT
source	TEXT

Preview

five records, free

First 5 rows of Historical Events
nameTEXT NOT NULL	event typeTEXT	descriptionTEXT	start yearINTEGER	end yearINTEGER	location namedTEXT	participantsTEXT	wikidata idTEXT	sourceTEXT
10th parallel north	occurrence	circle of latitude	—	—	—	—	Q1255736	Wikidata (CC0)
11th parallel north	occurrence	circle of latitude	—	—	—	—	Q1256475	Wikidata (CC0)
13th Wikidata Birthday, Kumasi	occurrence	Wikidata Birthday Celebration in Kumasi organized by Wikimedians of Twi language	—	—	Kumasi	—	Q136497927	Wikidata (CC0)
1948 Accra Riots	occurrence	adu boahen	1948	—	Accra	—	Q339486	Wikidata (CC0)
1956 Gold Coast legislative election	public election	1956 Legislative Election	1956	—	—	—	Q1477305	Wikidata (CC0)

nameTEXT NOT NULL	event typeTEXT	descriptionTEXT	start yearINTEGER	end yearINTEGER	location namedTEXT	participantsTEXT	wikidata idTEXT	sourceTEXT
example-name-1	example-event_type-1	example-description-1	10	10	example-location_named-1	example-participants-1	10	example-source-1
example-name-2	example-event_type-2	example-description-2	20	20	example-location_named-2	example-participants-2	20	example-source-2
example-name-3	example-event_type-3	example-description-3	30	30	example-location_named-3	example-participants-3	30	example-source-3
example-name-4	example-event_type-4	example-description-4	40	40	example-location_named-4	example-participants-4	40	example-source-4
example-name-5	example-event_type-5	example-description-5	50	50	example-location_named-5	example-participants-5	50	example-source-5
example-name-6	example-event_type-6	example-description-6	60	60	example-location_named-6	example-participants-6	60	example-source-6
example-name-7	example-event_type-7	example-description-7	70	70	example-location_named-7	example-participants-7	70	example-source-7
example-name-8	example-event_type-8	example-description-8	80	80	example-location_named-8	example-participants-8	80	example-source-8

370 more rows — see the plans

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Endpoint

GET connect.apighana.com/api/data/historical_events

Auth: X-API-Key header
Pagination: page · limit
Format: JSON
Version: 1.0
Last updated: Sep 18, 2026from the source
Covers: A snapshotas of Sep 18, 2026
Refreshed: monthly
Last checked: Oct 1, 2026looked right
Source: Wikidata

How to cite

Cite this dataset and the organisation its records come from (Wikidata). Datasets are updated, so keep the date you accessed it in the citation. Last updated from the source on Sep 18, 2026.

API Ghana. (2026). Historical events (Version 1.0) [Data set, compiled from Wikidata]. Retrieved October 1, 2026, from https://apighana.com/datasets/historical-events

Code samples

cURL

curl "https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/historical_events?page=1&limit=20" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $APIGHANA_KEY"

JavaScript

const response = await fetch(
  "https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/historical_events?page=1&limit=20",
  { headers: { "X-API-Key": process.env.APIGHANA_KEY } },
);

const { data, meta } = await response.json();

Python

import os, requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/historical_events",
    headers={"X-API-Key": os.environ["APIGHANA_KEY"]},
    params={"page": 1, "limit": 20},
)

rows = response.json()["data"]

Field

Type

name

TEXT NOT NULL

event_type

TEXT

description

TEXT

start_year

INTEGER

end_year

INTEGER

location_named

TEXT

participants

TEXT

wikidata_id

TEXT

source

TEXT

nameTEXT NOT NULL

event typeTEXT

descriptionTEXT

start yearINTEGER

end yearINTEGER

location namedTEXT

participantsTEXT

wikidata idTEXT

sourceTEXT

10th parallel north

occurrence

circle of latitude

—

Q1255736

Wikidata (CC0)

11th parallel north

occurrence

circle of latitude

—

Q1256475

Wikidata (CC0)

13th Wikidata Birthday, Kumasi

occurrence

Wikidata Birthday Celebration in Kumasi organized by Wikimedians of Twi language

—

Kumasi

—

Q136497927

Wikidata (CC0)

1948 Accra Riots

occurrence

adu boahen

1948

—

Accra

—

Q339486

Wikidata (CC0)

1956 Gold Coast legislative election

public election

1956 Legislative Election

1956

—

Q1477305

Wikidata (CC0)

nameTEXT NOT NULL

event typeTEXT

descriptionTEXT

start yearINTEGER

end yearINTEGER

location namedTEXT

participantsTEXT

wikidata idTEXT

sourceTEXT

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How to cite

Cite this dataset and the organisation its records come from (Wikidata). Datasets are updated, so keep the date you accessed it in the citation. Last updated from the source on Sep 18, 2026.

API Ghana. (2026). Historical events (Version 1.0) [Data set, compiled from Wikidata]. Retrieved October 1, 2026, from https://apighana.com/datasets/historical-events

Code samples

cURL

curl "https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/historical_events?page=1&limit=20" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $APIGHANA_KEY"

JavaScript

const response = await fetch(
  "https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/historical_events?page=1&limit=20",
  { headers: { "X-API-Key": process.env.APIGHANA_KEY } },
);

const { data, meta } = await response.json();

Python

import os, requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/historical_events",
    headers={"X-API-Key": os.environ["APIGHANA_KEY"]},
    params={"page": 1, "limit": 20},
)

rows = response.json()["data"]